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The Canadian dollar dropped to below 77 cents against the U.S. dollar on Friday for the first time since March 2009.

The Canadian dollar seesawed above and below the 77-cent level all day before closing at 77.08 cents US when stock markets closed.

The loonie started falling on Wednesday after the Bank of Canada cut its key interest rate to 0.5 per cent. The loonie lost more than a penny against the U.S. dollar that day, it’s worst one-day performance this year.
继续阅读Canadian dollar dips below 77 cents for first time since 2009

A Toronto-bound Air Transat flight from Rome diverted to Dublin on Friday and has landed safely.

Air Transat spokeswoman Ursula Leonowicz said the Airbus A330 with 313 passengers aboard diverted for a “precautionary technical verification.”

She said in an email that there were traces of smoke in the cabin on Flight 315, but did not elaborate further.

The approximately nine-hour flight was scheduled to land at Pearson International Airport just before 5 p.m. ET

According to the flight tracking site Flight Aware, the plane was registered as C-GITS, which would make it the same aircraft that crash-landed in the Azores almost 14 years ago.

That flight, Air Transat Flight 236, bound for Lisbon from Toronto on Aug. 24, 2001, crash-landed in the Azores after gliding powerless over the ocean for 30 minutes.

U-Tapao Rayong-Pattaya International Airport on Wednesday announced its readiness to become a fully functional commercial airport that can facilitate AirAsia Group’s flights, particularly those to to China which will commence later this year.

The airport has plans to add a new passenger terminal by February 2016, making it a major center for eastern tourism in time for the AEC.
继续阅读U-Tapao ready to become fully fledged commercial airport

Nine British tourists on a trip to Inner Mongolia have been detained by the Chinese authorities on suspicion of terror links.

The travellers – a group of 20 friends and family – are mainly wealthy professionals and retirees, from South African, Britain and Indian on a bespoke tour of “ancient China”.

They were arrested just before 10am on Friday morning as they boarded a plane from the city of Ordos in the semi-autonomous region on the border with Russia.
继续阅读Eleven Britons arrested in China – Foreign Office

A 16-year-old girl has been found after hiking to safety from the scene of a plane crash in a mountainous area of the north-western US.

Autumn Veatch had been on a small plane with her step-grandparents which crashed in the North Cascades National Park in Washington state.

She is being treated in hospital, but has no life-threatening injuries.
继续阅读Washington state plane crash girl, 16, hikes to safety